Progress Report - 3 guitars

[Bob Connor]

A week ago we didn't think we'd have these ready for Port Fairy (8th March) but did some hard yards this week and we should be right.

We finished these with Mirotone 100% gloss, 60/40, ten coats.

The necks for these are almost finished but need spraying so it''ll still be tight but we should be able to have them strung up next weekend which'll leave us a week to let them settle in and set them up.

















Bob

[Allen]

Bloody impressive Bob. Looks like you were paying attention to the spray lessons. You've really done a nice job of getting a top notch finish on them. I'm sure your proud of them. I would be.

[Kim]

Stunning Bob, really they are just beautiful and being nitro should harden up in time for the show just nice.

Cheers

Kim

[matthew]

lovely Bob.

The more i look at the wood on the first guitar - ziricote is it? - the more I just don't understand it.

That grain defies all logic.

[ozziebluesman]

Man there classy looking guitars Bob. If I can get my sassafrass to look that good i'm excited already. It will be interesting to hear some A B sound samples of the guitars too.

Beautiful workmanship mate!!!

Cheers

Alan

[Bob Connor]

Thanks guys.

Allen, the info that came out of your tute was indispensible. Thanks very much.

I've had four litres of Mirotone in the shed for about a year and we had never tried it.

We'd run out of Hard Shellac so cracked open the Mirotone.

It flows out much better than Hard Shellac, is easier to sand and level, drys quicker and harder and buffs up to a high gloss much quicker.

These are definitely the best finishes we've achieved.

As much as I've been an advocate of HS I have to say that this is a far superior finish.

We used the Festool sander and dry sanded the lot starting with 400 dry paper then swapped to 1000 and 2000 Platin2 which is like a micromesh.

Buffed with Fine Menzerna compound.

The standard sandpaper clogged fairly quickly but the platin2 pads are brilliant. I've since found out that you can get 400 and 500 grit in the Platin2.

I reckon you could have an instrument totally sanded and buffed in about half an hour using these.

They're not cheap though. About $60 for a box of 15.

Bob

[Lillian]

Bob, you and Dave do some beautiful work. Stunning.

[gratay]

wow,.... you guys will impress at port fairy with that quality gear thats for sure.. I hope you do well.

[Dave White]

Lovely!!!

[sebastiaan56]

Fabulous Bob, they are stunning to look at!

Sebastiaan

[Hesh1956]

Beautiful work Bob and the finish is as good or better as any I have seen.

Your guitars should be a big hit at Port Flamer.......

[Dennis Leahy]

Wow!

I know where the "miro-" in Mirotone comes from! Wonderful looking instruments, and the Ziricote will be a head turner.

Hope all goes well with the necks.

Dennis

[Sam Price]

Absolutely stunning, Bob!!

[Arnt]

Beautiful looking boxes!

[Bob Connor]

Thanks everyone.

Dave and I are both very pleased with how they turned out.

For you people outside of Australia, Mirotone is a pre-catalysed laquer.

According to manufacturers specs maximum hardness is achieved in seven days.

We sprayed these, left them for a week then sanded and buffed.

We had intended to leave them for two weeks as per Allen's suggestion but simply didn't have the luxury of waiting that long.

It hasn't seemed to have affected the quality of the finish at all.

Cheers

Bob

[Paul B]

They look awesome Bob.

I'm going to have to try some of that mirotone.